A logistics model for emergency supply of critical items in the aftermath of a disaster

Relief distribution networks: a systematic review

“…Despite their efforts, it seems that most of these contributions did not focus adequately in the specific characteristics of humanitarian logistics like the knowledge of demand, the considered objectives, the periodicity and the decision-making structure (Holguín-Veras et al, 2012). Hopefully, our knowledge and comprehension level of humanitarian challenges increases and recent articles present more sophisticated models, which better suit the specific context and needs, especially in the case of transportation problems (Berkoune et al 2012;Gu 2011;Huang et al 2012;Lee et al 2009a;Lin et al 2012;Lin et al 2011;Murali et al 2012;). Nonetheless, we think that the sudden and dramatic nature of humanitarian problems should be emphasized in future research works.…”

“…Thereby, papers proposing approximated methods (e.g. Nolz et al 2010;Berkoune et al 2012;Lin et al 2012;Murali et al 2012;Wohlgemuthscha et al 2012) are becoming more and more popular than the ones, focusing in modeling aspects, where commercial software is used to solve the proposed mathematical formulation Lin et al 2011;Rawls & Turnquist 2011).…”

“…More specifically, Huang et al (2012) is the only paper to highlight the paramount importance of a fair sharing of the available relief among the people in need. For their part, Lin et al (2011);Tzeng et al( 2007); Vitoriano et al (2009) and Vitoriano et al (2011) considered it more as a secondary objective. The notion of "equity", overlooked in the literature, becomes even more important when multi-period contexts are considered.…”

The Emergency Vehicle Routing Problem with Uncertain Demand under Sustainability Environments

“…To mitigate damage and loss in disasters, issues in pre-disaster, during-disaster and post-disaster have been widely studied in the past few years. For relief activities in post-disaster, to transport sufficient emergency supplies to affected areas in order to support basic needs for those trapped in disaster-affected areas is a critical challenge [2]. Emergency supplies that are essential for human survivals include water, food and medicines.…”

“…Sheu [21] presented relief-demand management model for emergency logistics operations under imperfect information conditions. Lin et al [2] proposed a logistics model for delivery of prioritized items in disaster relief operations. Chang et al [22] gave a novel algorithm capability of regulating the distribution of available resources and automatically generating a variety of feasible emergency logistics schedules for decision-makers.…”